Sentences with phrase «new ways of speaking»

But we will in faith continue to shape new ways of speaking about the things of God informed by events that spill out of our own histories and self - consciousness.

He stresses the need to create new ways of speaking which will heighten our sense of human solidarity by increasing our sensitivity to the pain of others and enlarging our sense of «us.»

Radicals like Monique Wittig, who see the present systems as categorically exclusive, advocate inventing new ways of speaking and even new categories of experience.

One way of understanding this language would be to suppose that this is simply a new way of speaking of «doctrines of.»

Their piece «offers a new way of speaking about a truly complex topic,» said Anna Nordbeck, a reporter for SVT, the Swedish public television network.

Developing a new way of speaking about women's beauty that's not judgmental, or implicative, would benefit us all.

Learning Chinese is one of the hardest things you could ever learn to do, not only is it because the language is so different from our own, but there are new characters, new intonations, and an entirely new way of speaking to master.

Not only did it boost the profiles of Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd, it also introduced a whole new way of speaking to the masses (as if!).

I think this enabled a new way of speaking to art, economic and politic powers.

Not exact matches

After getting fired from his job in New York, Cole Zucker booked a one - way ticket to Shanghai, in search of adventure in a country where he knew no one and spoke no Chinese.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

Speaking of tech, Fortune is looking for a few good companies harnessing the power of technology in new and innovative ways to tackle pressing global problems.

But as I learned, there are four very common fears that stand in the way of you speaking up, especially as a new hire.

Also try and speak at conferences I have spoken at many over the years and it has been a lot of fun along the way and they act as a fantastic way to generate new business leads.

In Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

(New Testament) Whay did Christ die on the cross anyway, if the old way was good enough??? When Paul speaks of the law he means anything that we should must or ought be doing.

But now I admit to be speaking in the language of natural philosophy, that old - fashioned way of understanding reality which quickly faded into the intellectual shadows after the arrival of the new knowledge of Galileo and Newton.

Professor Bates helps us see a way in which the New Testament speaks of the Holy Trinity: it recognises the Divine Persons speaking to or about each other in certain Old Testament texts.

God speaks words of pleasure over God's latest creation just as God spoke words of pleasure over each new item in the litany of creation way back in the genesis of all things.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

But on the other hand, we must be willing to take the risk of finding for the gospel new ways of expression which will speak directly and vividly to the hearts of men in this age.

But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.

That some of us spoke of this new way of thinking as post-modern followed easily.

Potentiality» for Whitehead has two meanings.27 In the first place Whitehead speaks of the «real potentiality» of given «actual entities» to enter into a new entity in one way or another.

One possibility is that we are simply using this current language to speak of the importance of the church's developing its doctrine of nature more fully and in ways appropriate to our new understanding of the relation between human beings and the natural world.

The history of religion in Western society shows that, sooner or later, people grasp the situation and find new ways of expressing their faith that speak to their contemporaries.

In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures&raquNew Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures&raqunew ways which can speak to today's cultures».

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

But, I have a little different take on this «new / old» way of being the church you speak of.

But the obtrusiveness of his own direct public speaking in the New Testament put the Reformers off about seeing it this way.

Each generation must struggle to create itself anew through words and deeds, and the chief instrument for personal and social progress is the development of new, enriched ways of speaking.

Rorty uses the term «edification» to stand for «this project of finding new, better, more interesting, more fruitful ways of speaking» (PMR 360).

Viewed this way, the infinite is, so to speak, separated into two parts: on the one hand, the infinity of possibility which offers an inexhaustible supply of the new, bit by bit, and on the other, God's infinite unification of experience moment by moment.

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

But his readable and instinctive new book dwells on the apparent paradox that even though, strictly speaking, Darwinism is incompatible with design, biologists «still go on using and seemingly needing this way of thinking.»

The man and woman faced each other land spoke of their pain and failure, and of the seemingly inexorable nature of their separation; of loneliness and the need to learn new ways of relating; and of the sense of death, which both were experiencing.

The Old as well as the New Testament has the astonishing power to speak of the divine in such a way that the I - thou character of the relation never darkens the transpersonal power and mystery of the divine, and vice versa.29

It offers a way of speaking about a source which spontaneously yields new intelligibility.

As for early influences, probably no one has directed my thinking more than Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister who was born in 1861 in upstate New York, and whose emphasis on the social gospel and the church of Love rather than the Church of Law spoke to me in seminary in a way that changed my thinking forever.

We get some idea of what was happening towards the end of the first century, at least in some quarters, by examining the new way in which the Fourth Evangelist speaks about resurrection.

In Paul's letters and the other New Testament letters, Jesus Christ (Jesus Messiah) and Christ Jesus (Messiah Jesus) became the ordinary way of speaking, so much so that many modern readers have thought of these expressions as Jesus» common name.

Joe and I actually made a new vow when we signed our divorce papers, «to speak and act in loving ways toward one another and about one another,» for the sake of the children and for our own wholeness, for the rest of our lives.

If it is really to speak to people in their actual lives, it must continually search for new ways of presenting the insights of traditional faith.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

In the same way, the New Testament discusses the Church in the light of what God has achieved through Jesus (for example, I Corinthians 3:10 - 15, Ephesians 2:11 - 22); conversely, it speaks of God and Christ in the light of what the community has experienced (for instance, Romans 1:1 - ff, Hebrews 2: 10 - 18).

It is clear that Marcion not only provided a completely new Bible but offered a way of reading the old one so as to make it speak in his favor.

He has done us the great service of alerting us to a key way in which the New Testament invites us to hear the Holy Trinity speaking.

That is obvious in a broad and vague way when we consider some of the various ways in which we speak of trying (and often failing) to understand: We speak of hoping to understand the instruction manual that accompanies a new word processor and of trying to understand a novel like James Joyce's Ulysses; though both are printed texts, what it is to understand one is quite different from what it is to understand the other.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.